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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Stupidity Reigns: China And The Middle East Surge Ahead Of US Online

Posted: October 11, 2010 at 5:27 am

The penetration of the Internet may be high in the US, but it is not used nearly as much as in China and the Middle East. Essentially, Americans presence online ...
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Currency Wars: The Referee Fired, The Sport Begins

Posted: October 11, 2010 at 5:03 am

The IMF was dismissed as the possible arbitrator in the growing currency dispute among the biggest countries. The US immediately said it would push China harder to boost what many ...
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Media Digest (10/11/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 11, 2010 at 4:03 am

Reuters: CNOOC offered $1.1 billion for a part of Chesapeake Energy, a deal the US may not approve. Reuters:   Pressure to investigate mortgage practices has begun to build for banks. ...
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The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead (ALXA, ALKS, AB, AAPL, VZ, BORN, CIT, CEG, IMGN, JAZZ, MSFT, POT, BHP, RGC, CNK, YHOO)

Posted: October 10, 2010 at 11:34 am

Earnings season is just getting underway and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 11,000 on Friday.  There are many stocks to watch outside of earnings this week.  The cast of ...
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Google Creates A Car That Needs No Driver

Posted: October 10, 2010 at 7:52 am

A car without a driver. A man without a brain. A map that needs not user. Google says that "we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves." The ...
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Companies With Too Few Workers May Do Nothing About It

Posted: October 9, 2010 at 8:14 am

[ One of the recurring nightmares that the Administration and many economists have is the that fear of the recession and a drive for profit will keep American companies from ...
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Only Fools Rush In And Forecast The Double-Dip

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 5:41 pm

Sometimes, it's not easy being a rich, famous business pundit. These days, the media only wants to know whether the U.S. headed for a double-dip recession.  The question -- which ...
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Next Week’s Can’t Miss Earnings (INTC, JPM, GE, APOL, SWY, AMD, GOOG, JBHT,INFY, MAT)

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 3:17 pm

Next week we have three key DJIA components reporting earnings, and many other market-moving and sector-moving companies are on deck as well.  The DJIA components on deck with earnings will ...
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Le Gaga IPO Filing: Chinese Vegetable Producer (GAGA, WMT)

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 2:17 pm

Le Gaga Holdings Ltd. has filed with the SEC to sell up to $100 million in ADR shares via an initial public offering.  The company is a Chinese vegetable producer.  ...
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DJIA 11,000 is here… Again (DIA, SPY)

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 11:34 am

Yesterday we gave a straddle and strangle options trading volatility strategy for options traders to play around the unemployment report and around the notion of DJIA 11,000. The market just ...
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Many Big Gold Stocks Looking Overvalued (AU, GFI, AEM, NG, GLD, GDX, GDXJ)

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 11:03 am

Earlier this week we wanted to look for some sort of implied value in shares of gold stocks that had either underperformed the sector and those which were actually at ...
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F5 Losing Its Outside Support (FFIV)

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 10:03 am

F5 Networks is losing more of those old buyout hopes.  We noted at VSInvestor.com on October 4 that buyout rumors were driving the stock, but the problem is that it ...
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Top Active Trader Stock Alerts (ADBE, AA, AIB, CYTX, DRWI, FFIV, GENZ, KLIC, KLAC, NBG, ONXX, TSYS)

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 9:12 am

This Friday was influenced by unemployment data and there are many stocks on the move.  Some are earnings, some are not.  We are tracking pre-market trading and volume spikes in ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (10/8/2010) September Unemployment

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 8:58 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/8/2010) Apple’s New Music

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 8:50 am

Updated throughout the day. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may offer a subscription based music service (NYPost) Bayer will not buy Actelion (Reuters) Schlumberger is the target of a bribery investigation by ...
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